Excelzior posted:

democrats have so thoroughly internalized the idea that McConnell is some kind of political mastermind that they've ceded all power to him and in doing so, fulfilled their own prophesy

I am in awe of their acumen

and also their a cum on

The Pussy Boss posted:

Is there one goddamn democrat in congress who will fight for working people. Not just make tweets but actually stand up to leadership.

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HR 1 is sold as a way to get money out of politics and to protect voters but it contains a poison pill for democracy and opposition parties like the Green Party. HR1 quintuples the amount of money Green presidential campaigns will be required to raise to qualify for federal matching funds: from $5,000 in each of 20 states to $25,000 per state.

The Green Party stands opposed to this bait-and-switch legislation that claims to improve access to voting while actually dismantling everyone's right to organize electorally against the parties of War and Wall Street. In a recent Gallup poll, a record 62% of US voters said we need a new major party.

In addition to quintupling the money presidential candidates must raise to access presidential primary public matching funds, HR1 will:

Abolish the general election campaign block grants that parties can access by winning at least 5% of the vote in the previous presidential election. HR1 will eliminate this provision that was created to give a fair shot to alternative parties that demonstrate significant public support

Replace the general election block grants (where each qualified candidate receives a set, lump sum of public funding for campaign expenses) with matching funds through Election Day — a huge step backwards for public campaign finance reform — using the above-mentioned criteria designed to squeeze out alternative parties and independent candidates

Eliminate the limits on donations and expenditures candidates can receive and make — what kind of campaign finance reform is that?

Inflate the amount of money national party committees can give to candidates from $5000 to $100 million, an astonishing increase of 1999900% that would give party bosses virtually unlimited power to flood elections with big money
Instead of trying to fool American voters and eliminating minor party voices, the Green Party calls for real reforms to democratize elections:

The Fair Representation Act, introduced in 2018 and 2019, would enact Ranked-Choice Voting (RCV) and multi-member districts for Congressional elections, giving voters more power and more choice

Individual state governments should enact RCV for their elections, including the presidential election

Fully-public campaign finance for every federal, state and local office through the Clean Money/Clean Elections model now used in Arizona and Maine

Bootleg Trunks posted:

Goddamn imagine these people if trump won again

Bootleg Trunks posted:

Nobody I know irl knows who neera even is lmao

Chris James 2 posted:

It's literally just as much a cult as Trump's fans

spacemang_spliff posted:

Isn't the VP asian american

MysteriousStranger posted:

Monica had a Ted Talk or something where she was all "most women my age have affairs with some nobody, I had an affair with the president of the united states!". She's been rather open that she was happy to bag "the president" and was more pissed off she was portrayed as some twit twat victim in this who didn't know any better and got suckered into rather than "yeah I bonked the president go me".

The whole thing was stupid, especially when the Clinton lead penis chasers like Gingrich were getting blow jobs in their cars while their wives had cancer. And Monica wasn't some dunce who fell off a turnip truck and wandered into the White House.

The notion that women can't be predatory and initiate things and brag about it to their friends has always been moronic.

Grand Theft Autobot posted:

How dare the left do this to a proud woman of color whose only crime was just posting

paranoid randroid posted:

im definitely not, even if they align with me on a 1:1 basis after the last week im forced to assume theyre either lying or will end up giving away the farm

Ruzihm posted:

If the choice was "start the phase out at 50k" or "speed up the phase out", I'm picking speeding it up every time.

People making over 80k do not need this as much as people making less

Imo, if someone's upset over this its because they are specifically in the small chunk that is now getting excluded. Welcome to having a high income, we shouldn't have emergency aid tailored to us.

Ruzihm posted:

I find it a little silly to have to be doing this.

But:

1) if this is what's needed to pass it then them's the breaks
2) you have to set the line somewhere
3) best structure it so as many people as possible are getting the full amount rather than changing it so more people get checks but less people get the full amount

Too Many Birds posted:

what if, get this, we just hand out the loving checks because money is fake made up bullshit anyway

In the Colosseum posted:

clearly democrats should be taking their cues from people who were dumb enough to vote for clinton then trump

WorkerThread posted:

trump actually gave people money and didn't need to spend 23 hours a day in a hyberbaric chamber!!!

Ruzihm posted:

There's a good Keynesian argument for means-testing stimulus, as income increases the % of income going towards consumption activity declines. The point of the checks are to stimulate consumer demand. If someone just puts it in a savings account it's not really doing anything useful.

https://scholar.harvard.edu/files/kdynan/files/200052pap.pdf

Ruzihm posted:

fun fact: keynes somehow actually thought that working people could have a 3 hr workday under capitalism

fuckin rube

Too Many Birds posted:

dems literally campaigned their senate majority on getting these checks out and now they are shaving away that money as much as they possibly can.

meanwhile i guarantee there is language in this bill that is going to give israel new sniper rifles they will use on pregnant palestinians.

Thoguh posted:

Give me money that expires then if that is the issue I will buy something.

Nix Panicus posted:

Supply based economics are also literal fairy tale bullshit.

Theres a conclusion here that should be easy to reach

Ruzihm posted:

the highest hope i had for national dsa was when the bernie or bust resolution passed.

That hope did not last long unfortunately lol. national is a disgrace.

baltimore's local is pretty goddamn good though, I'll rep dsa for their sake.

Substandard posted:

Why would that ever be the choice? Where are the people who are voting against a 1.9 trillion dollar relief bill but are all in on a 1.78 trillion dollar relief bill? Also, all of this stupid means testing is based on pre-COVID income. So some number of the 80k folks are probably jobless now.

Dixon Chisholm posted:

I saw DSA best described as the Dems' youth outreach org.

In the Colosseum posted:

AnimeIsTrash posted:

https://twitter.com/nickwestes/status/1367208685915672576

Willa Rogers posted:

this is the exact same excuse biden used when called out last year, lol.

ah, those irish & italians with their eagerness for physical affection!